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Medication-Overuse Headache (MOH)

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Pharmacological Management of Headaches

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Abstract

Overuse of any kind of acute headache/migraine drugs can lead to the development of medication-overuse headache. People suffering from primary headache such as migraine or tension-type headache are at higher risk to develop chronic headache following the overuse of acute headache drugs. Treatment of medication-overuse headache requires multidisciplinary setting and includes education of patients, withdrawal as an initial step, and initiation of preventive treatment.

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